I have both legs done, and that placement is a b**** for sure, but still love the outcome. The worst is that I'm going to have to go for a touch-up. inking over scar tissue isn't fun... But I was (unknown to me) pregnant at the time, and had some major edema issues when it was healing...

Oh no! My friend got a tattoo when she didn't know she was preggers. She was kinda shakey the whole time and her body absorbed the ink as the pregnancy went on. It was just awful looking, so she had it re done when her daughter was born. Crazy!

Wow, there is some really gorgeous work on here. Here's my addition; the story is that I got the first one when I was 18 and not very assertive, so it wasn't exactly what I had wanted. It had gotten a little faded and just, kinda "eh". Here's the pic right before I had it added to:

Now, 8 years later, I was wanting something that would make my little fairy more representative of who I am now. As I was falling asleep one night, I had this flash of inspiration and knew exactly what I wanted done:(Sorry for the mirror-image pic, it's actually on my left shoulder. This was the day after, so it's still kinda swollen.)It took about 2 hours, b/c the artist (the awesome Lea at Bethesda Tattoo Company) did a little bit over the old tattoo to make them go better together. Now I loff it totally.

How could I of missed this topic?! I guess because its in the 'bath/beauty section' and, I never visit this section, however I seen a tattoo pic in the hottest new projects sections so of course I clicked it.

Anyways, I have spent a long time looking at all 54 pages of this thread. I gots to say some very pretty, cool, unique, beautiful tattoos here! I love the big fairy wings one best probably, though I cant remember who posted them as it was some 20 or so pages back. I was opting for dragon wings on my back (Im a huge mythological person) Instead I went for whole dragon. Ha ha. I figure first tattoo, gotta go big. It was an wedding anniversary gift from hubby actually. We both got tattoos that year as wedding gifts to eachother. That was 1 1/2 yrs ago. Ive 5 tattoos now. Got them all at the same place too, Tattoo Charlies.